https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/33311327/how-smu-twins-michael-marcus-weathers-were-reunited-one-more-unlikely-year-together-basketball

Much ado about nothing. It was dysfunctional in Marcus’ redshirt year and KD’s first year. Happy for them.

Agreed Wildwood, here is the pertinent quote:Marcus struggled to fit into his new environment, feeling for the first time as if he was surrounded by people who took the game for granted. The lack of structure took some getting used to. He couldn't understand why his teammates complained so much."I was developing anxiety and all this stuff just being around a lot of toxic guys," he said.But he learned something about himself in the process."It showed me how to be cutthroat," he said. "If you want it, you gotta go get it."What I don't like about some of this is the "lack of structure"  and I doubt if all the toxic guys holdovers as KD even said he needed to clean house after last year.  The reality is he is probably referring to a number of guys who KD recruited in the first place.

This just seems to reinforce what we already knew….the culture was not “championship quality” which is why Dambrot cleaned house and hit the reset button.

The majority of players on the team in Keith's Year 1, counting the transfer-ineligibles, were his own recruits (10) vs. six Ferry holdovers. Yes, Keith certainly didn't inherit a winning culture, but I'm not sure that's what Weathers is referring to. The lack of "structure" he describes is somewhat of an eyebrow-raiser, coming from a kid who was the poster boy of the program's revival under Keith. But if you want to belittle his "feelings" go right ahead. I would have thought Keith had wasted little time in imposing some structure, but doesn't sound like it. Maybe that's why by his own admission kids weren't going to class as late as Year 4.

Keith never really "cleaned house" either. Three of the six Ferry holdovers were seniors with no eligibility left after Year 1, another graduated with one year of eligibility left and graduate-transferred up to UConn. The only ones who remained were Mike Lewis and Kellon Taylor and neither of them made it through Year 2, with one transferring out and the other stepping away because there really wasn't much of a need or playing time for him anymore, at least that's how I remember it. I don't recall much chatter on this board about how much dysfunction, discontent and culture-clash there was in the program as the Ferry holdovers merged with the new Dambrot recruits, but perhaps I'm mis-remembering. In any case, when I look at the big picture of how the program has imploded this year and what led to that, it does make me wonder.